On 02/02/2009, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/02/2009, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
>> > Nick Morrott wrote:
> > > Certainly the next 4 months and 17 days (if not delayed even further)
> > > will be interesting to follow from this side of the pond:)
> > >
> >
> > Interesting. I read that the Bill to DELAY the changeover failed, and thus
> > the changeover will go ahead as planned. Other reports seemed to have that
> > backwards, I suspect because they took the *defeat* of the Bill as being a
> > defeat of the concept that the changeover would go ahead on Feb 17. In fact,
> > that date is mandated by prior legislation AIUI, and so new legislation was
> > needed to overturn the prior state. And the new Bill was defeated.
>>> I based the "4 months and 17 days" on the article at
>http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE50T0UE20090130> which mentioned a new bill approved on 2009-01-29, which comes after
> the first bill on 2009-01-26 which was subsequently defeated on
> 2009-01-28. No idea if anything has happened since last week.
A further update to this thread - I'm sure most/all potentially
affected users on this list are already prepared, but it looks like
the delay _is_ going ahead, with stations having up until June 12th to
make the switch:
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE5136YP20090204
Nick
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